Publishers hand Redpine 20 million research papers
BMJ Group, Sage and other academic publishers are feeding their research archives to AI company Redpine
Twenty million papers is not a pilot program, it's a library. Academic publishers have spent years telling authors and researchers that permission matters, and now they're the ones cutting the deal on someone else's work. If you publish research through any of these houses, this is the week to ask your publisher directly what your contract actually says about AI licensing, because "we'll let you know" is not a policy.
Why it matters to you: If your research sits with BMJ Group, Sage, or a similar publisher, it may already be training an AI model without your separate sign-off.
This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Wed, Oct 7 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 63/100 (Tailwinds building).
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